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Darren Bader, French Horn with Guacamole, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Frieze Art Fair NY 2012, photo by Gallerist NY

Darren Bader
HORNY DIP
by Charlie Finch

May 7, 2012

Much as Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase was the icon of the 1913 Armory Show, Darren Bader's Guacamole French Horn is the centerpiece of last weekend's Frieze Art Fair on Randall's Island. Visitors to the Andrew Kreps Gallery booth there could dip their chips into an endless supply of guacamole, gurgling out of a gorgeous (and expensive) French horn.

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Charlie Finch Archives for 2012

May 3, 2012	Art Market Watch WHAT MONEY LIKES by Charlie Finch The sale of Edvard Munch's The Scream for $119 million prompts a definition of "market esthetics."

Apr. 26, 2012	THE FAILURE OF COOPER UNION by Charlie Finch A personal view of the legendary East Village school, founded to offer a tuition-free education.

Apr. 24, 2012	OBAMA VERSUS ROMNEY by Charlie Finch As an African-American and a Mormon face off in the 2012 presidential race, expect the unexpected.

Apr. 23, 2012	GOODBYE JACKIE by Charlie Finch RIP Jackie McAllister, 1962-2012, artist, curator and critic, from complications of a stroke.

Apr. 16, 2012	LESS IS LESS ON THE L.E.S. by Charlie Finch A ramble through the Lower East Side gallery scene, with Half Gallery, Frosch & Portmann, Lesley Heller, Blackston and Munch.

Apr. 13, 2012	IS BLACK ART TOO KITSCHY? by Charlie Finch African-American artists, now finally in some form of ascendancy, have used ornament for a new burst of visual expression.

Apr. 9, 2012	WHY IS AMERICAN TASTE SO CRAPPY? by Charlie Finch The death of kitsch painter Thomas Kinkade reminds us that America leads the world in cultural crap.

Apr. 4, 2012	WILD STRAWBERRIES AT 55 by Charlie Finch Revisiting the legacy of Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergmann, and the beautiful women he cast in his films.

Mar. 27, 2012	DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD by Charlie Finch RIP Hilton Kramer, 1928-2012, the art critic with the worst eye ever.

Mar. 23, 2012	Whitney Biennial 2012 ROMPER ROOM by Charlie Finch Is the 2012 Whitney Biennial so fake it makes your skin crawl?

Mar. 23, 2012	DEFENDING PAINTING AND SCULPTURE by Charlie Finch Charlie Finch makes a case for the "fixed world of painting and sculpture," often sidelined in favor of performance art.

Mar. 21, 2012	Zhang Jian LOOKING ON by Charlie Finch The liberty of looking at one painting -- Zhang Jian's Chang-An Street at Martha Sutherland Fine Arts.

Mar. 21, 2012	John Newman CHAMBERED NAUTILUS by Charlie Finch Grabbing a seashell conceit to hold onto the new works by sculptor John Newman at Tibor de Nagy Gallery.

Mar. 20, 2012	Zhang Jian LOOKING ON by Charlie Finch The liberty of looking at one painting -- Zhang Jian's Chang-An Street at Martha Sutherland Fine Arts.

Mar. 16, 2012	WHEN A GOOD PAINTER GOES BAD by Charlie Finch When the lemmings head to the sea, be a seagull -- Stella Michaels, Albert Oehlen and Native American art dealer John Molloy.

Mar. 13, 2012	CHARLES SPURRIER: A HISTORY by Charlie Finch New works by Charles Spurrier at New York’s Margaret Thatcher Projects.

Mar. 13, 2012	Art Market Watch WHY ART IS LIKE SPORTS by Charlie Finch If it has always been about the money, is it only about the money?

Mar. 6, 2012	GETTIN' DOWN WITH MELISSA BROWN by Charlie Finch Melissa Brown’s paintings involve a complex system of strategies worthy of the founder of game theory.

Feb. 28, 2012	Whitney Biennial A VERY SHORT HISTORY OF THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL by Charlie Finch Gaping back down memory lane for the Whitney Biennial high points, or any points for that matter.

Feb. 27, 2012	GIACOMETTI AND GERRI DAVIS by Charlie Finch Musings on unsettlement, and the paring down of life in the approach to brokenness and death.

Feb. 23, 2012	THE UNGOVERNABLE ALL-STARS by Charlie Finch While the New Museum fetes a squad of “Ungovernable” rookies, our scribe imagines a more seasoned team.

Feb. 22, 2011	WHO IS ROZALIA JOVANOVIC? by Charlie Finch Say hello to Rozalia Jovanovic, the new art reporter at GalleristNY.

Feb. 16, 2011	Cindy Sherman THE LAST STAR The triumph of Cindy Sherman, as her retrospective opens at the Museum of Modern Art.

Feb. 14, 2011	Whitney Biennial MITT ROMNEY AND FOREST BESS by Charlie Finch On the occasion of the Whitney Biennial, a conflation of Mitt Romney and visionary Texas artist Forrest Bess (1911-1977).

Feb. 13, 2011	Robert Grosvenor TRASH VERSUS ELEGANCE by Charlie Finch Two new sculptures by Robert Grosvenor at Paula Cooper Gallery, viewed in the context of Damian Hirst spotmania.

Feb. 8, 2011	Metropolitan Museum THE TWO KOCHS by Charlie Finch The cunning elites and the democratic plaza at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Feb. 7, 2011	Football HOW SUPER IS THE SUPER BOWL? by Charlie Finch Cultural ignorance and Super Bowl kitsch, Mitt Romney’s antiseptic robotism, NYPD thuggery against OWS and more.

Feb. 1, 2011	Mike Kelley MIKE AND IKE by Charlie Finch RIP Mike Kelley, 1954-2012.

Jan. 31, 2011	John Cage CAGED IN 2012 by Charlie Finch Charlie Finch ponders the legacy of pioneering composer John Cage on the centennial of his birth.

Jan. 30, 2011	Anthony Haden-Guest THE HATED GUEST by Charlie Finch Famed scribe Anthony Haden-Guest hosts a benefit for his efforts to recover the contents of his storage locker.

Jan. 26, 2011	THE BIG FRIEZE by Charlie Finch London's Frieze Art Fair is not slated to dock in New York until May 2012, but its press minions are already hitting the streets.

Jan. 23, 2011	POLLOCK/WARHOL 2012 by Charlie Finch Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol -- they have more in common than you might think.

Jan. 17, 2011	Chelsea Stroll THE BLACK BOX by Charlie Finch An amble through the art district, with Murad Khan Mumtaz, Kim MacConnel and "Diggers."

Jan. 13, 2011	Martin Luther King MLK: AN ART EXEGESIS by Charlie Finch Dr. Martin Luther King, the most "formidable, handsome and compelling subject in American history," has been ignored by the arts.

Jan. 10, 2011	Museum of Modern Art MOMA'S EYE CANDY by Charlie Finch "De Kooning: A Retrospective" comes to an end, but the pretentious intellectualism of MoMA's contemporary vision goes on.

Jan. 9, 2011	John McWhinnie BOOKWORLD by Charlie Finch RIP John McWhinnie, 43, art and book dealer, in a snorkeling accident in the British Virgin Islands.

Jan. 6, 2011	New Art OVERLOAD by Charlie Finch Stonehenge, the Beach Boys, and new art by Erik den Breejen at Freight & Volume and Janet Malcolm at Lorie Bookstein Fine Art.

Jan. 5, 2011	Stephen Douglas Hooper REMEMBERING HOOP by Charlie Finch RIP Stephen Douglas Hooper, aka Hoop, 1947-2011, master of the hippie funny car.

Jan. 3, 2011	OUR BODIES, OURSELVES IN 2012! by Charlie Finch Predicting the fate of Ai Weiwei, Glenn Lowry, the Old Master market and more.

Jan. 3, 2011	OUR BODIES, OURSELVES IN 2012! by Charlie Finch Predicting the fate of Ai Weiwei, Glenn Lowry, the Old Master market and more.

Charlie Finch Archives for 2011

Dec. 28, 2011	Lola Schnabel DRINK YOUR LOLA COLA by Charlie Finch Lola Montes Schnabel debuts her paintings at the Hole on the Bowery in Manhattan.

Dec. 27, 2011	Helen Frankenthaler EBB AND FLOW by Charlie Finch RIP Helen Frankenthaler, 1928-2011, American Abstract-Expressionist painter who was a pioneer of the Washington Color School.

Dec. 21, 2011	John Chamberlain AUTOPILOT by Charlie Finch RIP John Chamberlain, 1927-2011, second generation Abstract Expressionist artist widely known for his car-crash sculptures.

Dec. 19, 2011	Mickey Cartin THE REBBE by Charlie Finch A New York collector with eclectic taste and an almost Talmudic attachment to language.

Dec. 14, 2011	2011 in Review THE 10 ART EVENTS OF 2011 by Charlie Finch Ai Weiwei, OSW, PST, black artists, more.

Dec. 12, 2011	Julia Sherman JULIA! by Charlie Finch At JF & Sons boutique on University Place, artist Julia Sherman's designs for religious frocks for an Episcopal convent.

Dec. 8, 2011	Mariko Mori THAT BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL BLOB by Charlie Finch Mariko Mori's digital-only earth project is a "paragon of mindless beauty," confined to the screen of your iPhone or laptop.

Dec. 6, 2011	Maurizio Cattelan A DANGLING CONVERSATION by Charlie Finch A post windstorm meditation on Maurizio Cattelan's "All" at the Guggenheim Museum.

Nov. 29, 2011	Paul Nelson CRITICAL MASS by Charlie Finch Everything Is an Afterthought, Kevin Avery's new biography of the cultural critic Paul Nelson.

Nov. 28, 2011	Ron and Leonard LAUDERLAND by Charlie Finch The New York Times on the "tax avoidance strategies" of cosmetics magnate and Neue Galerie founder Ronald S. Lauder.

Nov. 22, 2011	CONTEMPT: STILL VS. RICHTER by Charlie Finch Are there two more mediocre apostles of abstract painting than Clyfford Still and Gerhard Richter?

Nov. 17, 2011	AFTERNOON DELIGHT by Charlie Finch Pollock at McCoy Gallery, Harvey Quaytman at McKee, Erwin Blumenfeld at Houk and the Knickerbocker Club.

Nov. 11, 2011	David Hume HUME AT 300 by Charlie Finch The year 2011 is the 300th anniversary of Scottish philosopher David Hume, who reordered our conception of rationality.

Nov. 11, 2011	Art Market Watch OCCUPY LICHTENSTEIN by Charlie Finch What does Christie's sale of another record-breaking Lichtenstein mean to the One Percent?

Nov. 9, 2011	Les Rogers LES IS MORE by Charlie Finch Suprafragilistic new paintings, custom-framed, by veteran painter Les Rogers.

Nov. 7, 2011	Beach Boys FADED SMILE by Charlie Finch The Beach Boys Smile Sessions, the greatest rock album never released, now available in all its originality.

Nov. 7, 2011	Maurizio Cattelan A HOLE IN HIS SOUL by Charlie Finch Good wishes for Italian jokester Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim Museum and beyond.

Nov. 1, 2011	Janet Biggs WETNESS VISIBLE by Charlie Finch A performance by Janet Biggs on the East River brings noise-drenched conflict and then sublimity.

Oct. 31, 2011	Halloween Art HERE COME THE PUMPKINS by Charlie Finch Mechanical goblins, cackling witch statues and swaths of ghostly gauze herald the arrival of Icabod Crane and the Headless Horseman.

Oct. 25, 2011	OCCUPIED! by Charlie Finch The problem with Occupied Wall Street is lack of imagination. Herewith, some suggestions.

Oct. 21, 2011	Tony Fitzpatrick PILGRIM'S PROGRESS by Charlie Finch Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick brings to the stage the tale of his rowdy spiritual quest to Istanbul in Stations Lost, at The Boiler in Williamsburg.

Oct. 19, 2011	Pepón Osorio OSORIO'S TURN by Charlie Finch The rich and poor, united by mortality, in Pepon Osorio's Drowned in a Glass of Water at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts.

Oct. 7, 2011	Cayetana Conrad ALL IN THE FAMILY by Charlie Finch Cayetana Conrad's new paintings of "A Tangled Wood" at M. Sutherland Fine Arts in New York.

Oct. 4, 2011	Xu Bing SOFT FASCIST by Charlie Finch All you need to know about the deadening effect of the Chinese Communist state on artistic freedom.

Oct. 3, 2011	CATTELAN'S DINGLEBERRIES by Charlie Finch Charlie Finch responds to the news that the jokester artist plans more tricks for his upcoming Guggenheim retrospective.

Sept. 28, 2011	Timothy Greenfield-Sanders LATINO LOVEFEST by Charlie Finch Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' film The Latino List, with the companion photo-portraits, debuts at the Brooklyn Museum.

Sept. 23, 2011	PACE YOURSELF by Charlie Finch David Byrne, "Social Media," Agnes Martin and Melissa Meyer.

Sept. 21, 2011	Willem de Kooning MAKING SENSE OF DE KOONING by Charlie Finch "De Kooning: A Retrospective" comes to the Museum of Modern Art.

Sept. 20, 2011	New Art A VISIT TO PIEROGI by Charlie Finch Joe Amrheim, John Stoney, Tony Fitzpatrick and an art adventure in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Sept. 16, 2011	Street Art ROCHESTER RAMBLE by Charlie Finch The B-Boy BBQ street art festival in Rochester, N.Y.

Sept. 8, 2011	UPSTATE by Charlie Finch A visit to the historic homestead of literary critic Edmund Wilson.

Sept. 6, 2011	"Buried Treasure" WIN AT KENO! by Charlie Finch Take a gander at "Buried Treasure" on Fox, the new antiques roadshow starring Leigh and Leslie K.

Sept. 1, 2011	REMEMBERING LEONARD HARRIS by Charlie Finch RIP Leonard Harris, 1929-2011, arts and theater critic for CBS in New York in the 1960s and '70s.

Aug. 26, 2011	CHELSEA MEMORIES by Charlie Finch Good-bye to the Chelsea Hotel and all the tales that it has to tell.

Aug. 24, 2011	GATSBY AT 86 by Charlie Finch The ostentation of the super-rich, the core of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, is still with us.

Aug. 24, 2011	PORTRAIT OF AMERICA by Charlie Finch It's tough times for the everyday artist in recession-era U.S.A.

Aug. 17, 2011	G-L-O-R-I-A. . .Gloria! by Charlie Finch Gloria Steinem as the original Baby Boomer, back in the spotlight again.

Aug. 16, 2011	"Art in the Streets" DOES ARNOLD LEHMAN HAVE BALLS? by Charlie Finch The call goes out once again: Bring "Art in the Streets" to the Brooklyn Museum.

Aug. 10, 2011	The Art Carousel WHO'S TZARA NOW? by Charlie Finch Tristan Tzara, Dada and "the superabundance of life" in today's art scene.

Aug. 8, 2011	WINKLEMANIA UP CLOSE by Charlie Finch Minor art-world phenomenon Ed Winkleman, representative of most "second-tier" New York galleries, discusses the current state of dealer affairs and his hopes for the future.

Aug. 4, 2011	STEWED AND KEEFED by Charlie Finch Life, Keith Richards’ autobiography, gets down to the “don't-give-a-shit” inflections that have endeared Richards to guitar heroes everywhere.

Aug. 3, 2011	William Powhida USELESS TOOL by Charlie Finch Art-world satirist William Powhida rips off Andy Warhol's famed college trick for his "most ambitious installation to date" at Marlborough Chelsea.

Aug. 2, 2011	SAVE THE GALLERIES! by Charlie Finch Pop-up exhibitions like “What Works” at ArtStar on Chrystie Street prove that galleries are here to stay -- as long as they keep showing art to sell art.

Aug. 1, 2011	THE SAVAGE STREET by Charlie Finch South African graffiti artist Faith47 and street sculptor Dal's spiritual, visually conservative art might be the antidote to street-art phobia.

July 28, 2011	TO MARKET TO MARKET by Charlie Finch Lucian Freud, our top art galleries, China and the global art market.

July 25, 2011	Art in Chelsea SWEET BIRDS OF YOUTH by Charlie Finch A Friday evening in Chelsea - punk memorabilia, Laura Levine's punk photos, Daniel Reich Gallery, skate shop at I-20, more.

July 21, 2011	Lucian Freud THE LAST OF THE REALIST REBELS by Charlie Finch RIP Lucian Freud, 88, who died at his London home on July 20, 2011.

July 20, 2011	FLAG Art Foundation RAISING THE FLAG by Charlie Finch "One, Another," works on coupling and interconnectedness by 14 artists at the FLAG Art Foundation.

July 18, 2011	Gigi Chen ONE CHINESE OR ONE CHINA? by Charlie Finch Gigi Chen's robot bunnies are a metaphor for China, late capitalism and the techno muckfest around us.

July 13, 2011	Art & Psychedelics YES, I AM EXPERIENCED by Charlie Finch Dig the pictures in Ken Johnson's new Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art.

July 11, 2011	Carolee Schneemann THE WRESTLING ANGEL by Charlie Finch Correspondence Course, an epistolary history of Carolee Schneeman and her circle, edited by Kristine Stiles.

July 6, 2011	Cy Twombly WAS TWOMBLY A FRAUD? by Charlie Finch RIP Cy Twombly, 1928-2011, an artist loved by other artists, and the art market, too.

June 30, 2011	Werner Herzog DREAM ON by Charlie Finch Cro-Magnon Conceptualism or 19th-century fraud? Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

June 29, 2011	Erik Parker and KAWS SITTING PRETTY by Charlie Finch Artists Erik Parker and KAWS organize "Pretty on the Inside" at Paul Kasmin Gallery.

June 27, 2011	MILLER TIME by Charlie Finch Remembering New York art dealer Robert Miller, 1939-2011.

June 23, 2011	Tom Armstrong LIGHTEN UP! by Charlie Finch Remembering a time when goofy art administrators failed to understand goofy art.

June 20, 2011	Mothers of Invention FREAK OUT, 45 YEARS ON by Charlie Finch Frank Zappa and his album "Freak Out!" was the Picasso of the 1960s cultural scene.

June 14, 2011	The Weiner Scandal MAPPLETHORPE WINS! by Charlie Finch Thoughts on political scandal (and Anthony Weiner) in light of the Robert Mapplethorpe culture wars.

June 10, 2011	Art in Chelsea DAYCOCK by Charlie Finch Feats of complex engineering in Tatlin and Russian Constructivism at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Alice Aycock and E.V. Day at Salomon Contemporary.

June 7, 2011	Leon Kossoff KOSSOFF'S MAGIC RUINS by Charlie Finch At Mitchell-Inness & Nash, masterful new works by the 85-year-old British painter Leon Kossoff.

June 3, 2011	LINDSAYLAND by Charlie Finch Why hasn't Barack Obama pardoned Lindsay Lohan?

June 2, 2011	Ai Weiwei WHAT IS TO BE DONE? by Charlie Finch A practical plan to assist the imprisoned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.

May 31, 2011	THE JOY OF WEINBERG by Charlie Finch What to do with the huge party spaces of Renzo Piano’s new Whitney Museum?

May 26, 2011	Malerie Marder LABOR OF LOVE by Charlie Finch An innocent generosity of spirit in a new book by Malerie Marder, Carnal Knowledge (Violette Editions).

May 23, 2011	LOVERMAN: BOB DYLAN AT 70 by Charlie Finch Looking back at the long, fecund career of the generational muse and lyrical shapeshifter.

May 19, 2011	Chelsea Stroll TOO MUCH TESTYRONE John Chamberlain, Donald Judd, Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse, and Judy Ledgerwood.

May 16, 2011	Jasper Johns JOHNUMENTS by Charlie Finch Sexy new copper, silver and aluminum sculptures by Jasper Johns at Matthew Marks Gallery.

May 13, 2011	Acquavella Gallery TWO DEGREES OF DAMIAN LOEB by Charlie Finch A lively market for the artist's dark paintings of his naked wife

May 11, 2011	Getty Trust CUI CUNO? by Charlie Finch What does it mean that James Cuno is named president of the Getty Trust in Los Angeles.

May 6, 2011	GO ASK ALŸS by Charlie Finch See Francis Alÿs steal creative tropes from just about anyone in his new show at the Museum of Modern Art.

May 4, 2011	Willem de Kooning THE WINDOW WASHER by Charlie Finch Willem de Kooning, re-presented, macho, playful, at Pace Gallery in New York.

Apr. 29, 2011	Jean Forgotten THE PROPHET BAUDRILLARD by Charlie Finch Jean Baudrillard, dead and all but forgotten by advanced culture.

Apr. 25, 2011	GRAFFITI: THE NOBLEST ART by Charlie Finch The Daily News and the rest of New York should be celebrating graffiti artists.

Apr. 22, 2011	Noble or Nibble? LAST TRAIN TO DULLSVILLE by Charlie Finch Looking at tombstones, thinking it’s the sky, with James Siena and Thornton Willis (and Frankenthaler and Pousette-Dart).

Apr. 18, 2011	Art & Politics HOW TO DESTROY THE CHICOMS by Charlie Finch Can the West pull off a boycott of China? A call to arms on behalf of Ai Weiwei.

Apr. 13, 2011	Gallery at the Louvre MORSE CODE by Charlie Finch Yale historian David McCullough on the secrets of Samuel F.B. Morse’s masterpiece, Gallery at the Louvre.

Apr. 7, 2011	New Art A DAY AT THE RACES by Charlie Finch Meghan Boody, Linda Yablonsky, Ryan Oakes, Jerry Davis, Edward Winkleman, Jimbo Blachly, Kika Karadi and the Williamsburg Bridge.

Apr. 4, 2011	Kenneth Noland ESCAPE FROM MEANING by Charlie Finch The classic Noland paintings at Mitchell-Innes & Nash are sublime.

Mar. 30, 2011	R.I.P. George Tooker: THE ONE PAINTING SYNDROME by Charlie Finch Charlie Finch bids adieu to the late George Tooker, painter of modern urban alienation, and revisits his most iconic work.

Mar. 29, 2011	Looking for T. Rex: JURASSIC POLSKY by Charlie Finch Andy Warhol expert Richard Polsky pens Boneheads: My Search for T. Rex.

Mar. 23, 2011	Elizabeth Taylor: GOODBYE LIZ by Charlie Finch Elizabeth Taylor was a long-lived fiery cultural icon who inspired more than her share of contemporary artists.

Mar. 21, 2011	Richard Prince: SLIPPERY SLOPE by Charlie Finch Appropriation artist Richard Prince loses his "fair use" copyright case over his "Canal Zone" Rastafarian works.

Mar. 18, 2011	Bye Bye Kitty: NO SPACE BETWEEN CHAOS AND BEAUTY by Charlie Finch At Japan Society, the notion that we might "demolish" old ideas about Japanese art comes a little too close to current reality.

Mar. 16, 2011	ADVENTURES IN RADIATION by Charlie Finch MRI machines, A-bomb tests and the threat of nuclear energy.

Mar. 14, 2011	FUN WITH LEO by Charlie Finch RIP Leo Steinberg, 1920-2011, the greatest art historian of his generation.

Mar. 10, 2011	Meghan Boody: 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BOODY by Charlie Finch Artist Meghan Boody and her eternally girly-girly fantasy world of photos, sculptures and things under glass.

Mar. 8, 2011	DEPARTURE by Charlie Finch We say goodbye to MoMA PS1 stalwart Tony Guerrero.

Mar. 2, 2011	SOCIAL MEDIA IS OLD AGE by Charlie Finch Twitter, Facebook, Gawker, Huffpo, they all turn long-term living into the passing moments of old age.

Feb. 25, 2011	COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER by Charlie Finch Janet Biggs takes us miles underground with an Arctic coal miner for Part Three of her “Arctic Trilogy”

Feb. 23, 2011	AGAINST ART FAIRS by Charlie Finch The art-factory system flourishes while real art ends up in the sewer.

Feb. 18, 2011	HAMMONS' HEFTY BAG by Charlie Finch David Hammons at L&M Arts, is he turning to painting?

Feb. 15, 2011	FIND YOUR WAY BACK by Charlie Finch Tony Fitzpatrick's This Train: An Artists's Journal (Firecat Publishing, 2010).

Feb. 14, 2011	BAD NEWS AT THE MET by Charlie Finch Thomas Campbell wants to overload the unwitting museum visitor with useless information.

Feb. 10, 2011	IS PICASSO NECESSARY? by Charlie Finch Do we still need to look at Pablo Picasso? Do we need to look at anyone else?

Feb. 8, 2011	THE GAY PLACE by Charlie Finch Remembering William Brammer's great political novel, The Gay Place.

Feb. 3, 2011	ROCCO MUST GO by Charlie Finch Broadway mega-producer Rocco Landesman is selling out his constituency at the National Endowment for the Arts.

Feb. 1, 2011	Carlos the Jackal: GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT by Charlie Finch The terrorist revolutionary as a sexist puppet in Olivier Assayas’ five-hour-long miniseries Carlos.

Jan. 27, 2011	WHO IS THE WORST ARTIST? by Charlie Finch A contest in male infantilism between Joe Bradley, Dan Colen and Rob Pruitt.

Jan. 24, 2011	WYNN’S GENIUS by Charlie Finch "Drawn / Taped / Burned," a show of abstract works on paper from the collection of Wynn Kramarsky.

Jan. 22, 2011	DENNIS THE MENACE by Charlie Finch Remembering Dennis Oppenheim, 1938-2011, the pioneering New York conceptual artist and allegorical sculptor.

Jan. 21, 2011	BEEN TOO LONG AT THE FAIR by Charlie Finch Considering the new cyberspace VIP Art Fair.

Jan. 18, 2011	THE DON by Charlie Finch Rediscovering the 1960s Finish Fetish works of artist Don Dudley.

Jan. 14, 2011	SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL by Charlie Finch Violence and hypocrisy in the Tucson shooting debate.

Jan. 12, 2011	SNOW BLIND by Charlie Finch Face the rigors of winter snow with help from Wyeth, Wilke, Ryman and Bearden.

Jan. 10, 2011	JOHN WILKES BOOTH, ARTIST? by Charlie Finch A new book on Lincoln’s assassin, inspired by an idea by Sinclair Lewis, imagines Booth as a western artist.

Jan. 5, 2011	SCHEHERAZADE by Charlie Finch A few thoughts on the appointment of Lindsay Pollock as editor of Art in America magazine.

Jan. 3, 2011	WIZARD IN THE BLIZZARD by Charlie Finch Some predictions for 2011.

Charlie Finch Archives for 2010

Dec. 28, 2010	TINY TOP TEN by Charlie Finch In a baleful year, a few things to be thankful for.

Dec. 27, 2010	A BEACON FOR ART by Charlie Finch Remembering art collector and museum founder Roy Neuberger, 1903-2010.

Dec. 22, 2010	KLEEMATION by Charlie Finch Singing the praises of an undervalued 20th-century master.

Dec. 20, 2010	SILENT MOVIE by Charlie Finch At MoMA, Andy Warhol’s Eat, Sleep, Blow Job, Kiss and other films are no more than magnificent paintings.

Dec. 17, 2010	THE FLOWERS OF ROMANCE by Charlie Finch Boston painter Donald Shambroom and memories of art talks past.

Dec. 16, 2010	OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! by Charlie Finch Taking a contrarian view of the works of Alice Neel in part 6 of a serial book review.

Dec. 15, 2010	ALICE'S TEA PARTY by Charlie Finch Alice Neel in middle age: part five of a serial review of Phoebe Hoban’s new bio.

Dec. 14, 2010	PINCHUK UPCHUCK by Charlie Finch A few words about the Victor Pinchuk’s $100,000 Future Generation Art Prize.

Dec. 13, 2010	QUEEN OF HEARTS by Charlie Finch Alice Neel is the life of the party: part 4 of a serial review.

Dec. 10, 2010	THE RED QUEEN by Charlie Finch Alice Neel in the 1930s: part 3 of a serial review.

Dec. 9, 2010	JOHNNY, WE HARDLY KNEW YE by Charlie Finch Socialite and African photography collection Jean Pigozzi breaks out his own paparazzi snaps.

Dec. 8, 2010	DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE by Charlie Finch Reading Phoebe Hoban’s new Alice Neel bio (part two).

Dec. 6, 2010	ALICE NEEL, THE FIRST TEN PAGES by Charlie Finch Phoebe Hoban’s Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty.

Dec. 1, 2010	THE OPERATOR by Charlie Finch Remembering Ted Kheel, 1914-2010.

Nov. 24, 2010	KITSCHY KITSCHY CURRIN by Charlie Finch John Currin has landed in a silky bog.

Nov. 23, 2010	ABSTRACTING ABSTRACTION by Charlie Finch Lee Krasner, Keltie Ferris, Odili Donald Odita, Liz Markus and Christopher H. Ho.

Nov. 18, 2010	MoMA AT ITS VERY BEST by Charlie Finch Paula Hayes, Pop art, Romare Bearden and "OnLine."

Nov. 15, 2010	TIME AND TIME AGAIN by Charlie Finch The dollar sign as art history’s death grin.

Nov. 12, 2010	AI AI AI by Charlie Finch The West -- including the art world -- should stand for human rights in China

Nov. 10, 2010	RICHTUS INTERRUPTUS by Charlie Finch Gerhard Richter, Deitch Projects, Leslie-Lohman and random abstraction in lower SoHo

Nov. 8, 2010	IN SEARCH OF BAD PAINTING by Charlie Finch Paul Thek, John Dubrow and Jasper Cropsey at the Newington-Cropsey Foundation.

Nov. 4, 2010	DEVISING AND DIVIDING THE VICE OF DEVICES by Charlie Finch Bomb threats of all sorts.

Nov. 2, 2010	THE RIPPLE EFFECT by Charlie Finch Catching the drift with Matt Magee’s abstractions.

Oct. 30, 2010	THE BEST BOB by Charlie Finch Larry Gagosian presents "Robert Rauschenberg."

Oct. 29, 2010	LIGHTS OUT by Charlie Finch Jim Campbell’s "2,000 Lights" in Madison Square Park in Manhattan.

Oct. 25, 2010	ELEVENTH AVENUE RAMBLE by Charlie Finch Keith Mayerson, Joy Garnett, Nam June Paik and Debora Warner.

Oct. 21, 2010	SALOMON'S CHOICE by Charlie Finch "Plank Road" at Salomon Contemporary in New York’s Chelsea art district.

Oct. 18, 2010	DEFENDING KOONS by Charlie Finch About Jeff Koons, Cicciolina and "Made in Heaven" at Luxembourg & Dayan.

Oct. 15, 2010	WHERE’S THE BABY? by Charlie Finch Text is art for James Frey, and his collectors.

Oct. 12, 2010	WHERE’S THE BALL by Charlie Finch Fresh air, open fields, and paintings by Isca Greenfield-Sanders.

Oct. 7, 2010	KASSASSTROPHIES by Charlie Finch Kassaganda re Kassdom for Deborah Kass at Paul Kasmin.

Oct. 5, 2010	HANDS UP by Charlie Finch Zen master Hakuin and the sound of one hand.

Sept. 28, 2010	ROCCO LANDESMAN DISAPPEARS by Charlie Finch What happened to our new federal arts champion?

Sept. 22, 2010	THE VERMEER OF CHILE by Charlie Finch Chilean video artist Gianfranco Foschino captures visual joy in poverty.

Sept. 17, 2010	THE EXTRAORDINARY JILL by Charlie Finch RIP Jill Johnston, 1929-2010.

Sept. 17, 2010	PLAY TIME by Charlie Finch Rob Pruitt at GBE and Maccarone galleries, and Gene Beery at Algus Greenspon.

Sept. 9, 2010	WHERE ARE THE MYTHS OF TOMORROW? by Charlie Finch Brigid Berlin’s photos of the young artists of yesteryear.

Sept. 7, 2010	THE AIR-CONDITIONED SMILE by Charlie Finch The badass tableaux of Carol Bove.

Aug. 20, 2010	A BLIND MAN LOOKS AT 'WORK OF ART' by Charlie Finch Nothing good can come of turning art into just another crappy relay race.

Aug. 19, 2010	MY FAVORITE FIFTY by Charlie Finch Rising to the challenge to name 50 personal favorite paintings.

Aug. 10, 2010	WAS LATE ANDY ANY GOOD? by Charlie Finch "Andy Warhol: The Last Decade" at the Brooklyn Museum.

Aug. 5, 2010	JUICING PHILLIPS DE PURY by Charlie Finch A modest proposal for Phillips de Pury & Co.

Aug. 5, 2010	HOCKNEY AND MATISSE by Charlie Finch Artist and model, authority and enthrallment.

Aug. 3, 2010	MATISSE AND MEMORY by Charlie Finch Looking forward to looking back.

July 30, 2010	HOW DEEP IS HER OCEAN? by Charlie Finch Matisse’s androgynous Blue Nude of 1907.

July 27, 2010	BONELESS by Charlie Finch What Robertson Davies’ novel What’s Bred in the Bone says about art, and life.

July 23, 2010	YANGTZE YENTA by Charlie Finch Barbara Pollack’s The Wild, Wild East: An American Art Critic's Adventures in China.

July 22, 2010	BLUNT INSTRUMENT by Charlie Finch Miranda Carter’s Anthony Blunt: His Lives offers a picture of a world where art mattered.

July 19, 2010	THE MISSING MATISSE by Charlie Finch The echoes of Henri Matisse’s great painting, The Conversation.

July 14, 2010	DOWN BY THE RIVER by Charlie Finch Contemplating the influence of Matisse’s Bathers by the River.

July 9, 2010	THE VIOLENT WORLD OF GLENN LOWRY by Charlie Finch The MoMA director gives a "Tim Burtonesque" overview of his museum.

July 7, 2010	MR. CLEAN by Charlie Finch Time to restate Mike Bidlo’s series of "Not Picassos."

July 1, 2010	MOMA’S GRAY MATTERS by Charlie Finch A new installation from the collection at the Museum of Modern Art.

June 30, 2010	WILL DEFLATION HIT THE ART MARKET? by Charlie Finch The megarich may halt their buying.

June 25, 2010	WHEN THE FAMILIAR BECOMES ALIEN by Charlie Finch On Rafael Ferrer and Charles Burchfield.

June 25, 2010	THE VOICE OF CHEESE by Charlie Finch Low culture is getting a little too low.

June 23, 2010	WORK OF ART 2030 by Charlie Finch Coming to you from Ice Station Robotic on Queen’s Island, Antarctica.

June 21, 2010	WHITE ON WHITE by Charlie Finch A kayak ballet from Janet Biggs.

June 15, 2010	WHO WILL BE THE NEXT LOUISE BOURGEOIS? by Charlie Finch Making some art-world odds.

June 14, 2010	PROFOUND OBJECTS by Charlie Finch Vija Celmins artful somethings spun from nothings.

June 11, 2010	POLKEPHEMERA by Charlie Finch RIP Sigmar Polke, 1941-2010.

June 8, 2010	PSYCHEDELIC! AT THE WHITNEY! by Charlie Finch Let’s get old-school at Breuer’s Big Brute this July.

June 8, 2010	MY FRIEND FLICKR by Charlie Finch Some final words on Marina Abramovic’s "The Artist Is Present"

June 4, 2010	THE ESTHETICS OF BP by Charlie Finch Artists must lead the fight against corporate propaganda.

June 3, 2010	WHAT MARINA WROUGHT by Charlie Finch The enduring effects of Marina Abramovic’s The Artist Is Present.

June 2, 2010	BOURGEOISIE by Charlie Finch Louise Bourgeois was not much of an artist, but she was a helluva lot of fun.

June 1, 2010	ONE FOR THE HOPPER by Charlie Finch Dennis Hopper, 1936-2010.

May 28, 2010	SUMMING UP THE SEASON by Charlie Finch The foibles and fashions of the 2009-2010 school year.

May 21, 2010	WHEN WILL ART TRULY CROSS OVER? by Charlie Finch Mad Ave drains the truth from Felix Gonzalez-Torres.

May 17, 2010	NOT A CAMP CLASSIC by Charlie Finch Uncovering Justine and the Boys, Colette’s forgotten cult film from the late 1970s.

May 14, 2010	AUCTION ECONOMICS by Charlie Finch Painting the tape, baskets of art, auction choreography and other market mechanics.

May 13, 2010	FAILING UPWARDS by Charlie Finch The ass-backwards road to success.

May 12, 2010	ROBERT GOFF REINVENTS HIMSELF by Charlie Finch The knicknack school of painting, from a New York art dealer.

May 11, 2010	THE ULTIMATE METAPHOR by Charlie Finch Doug and Mike Starn’s Big Bambú as the all pervasive net of nature and culture.

May 10, 2010	HIM AND HER by Charlie Finch Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s real legacy for public art.

May 7, 2010	CAN DEACCESSIONING STRENGTHEN THE MARKET? by Charlie Finch The defibrillations of the auction business.

May 6, 2010	BLIND POWER by Charlie Finch Some art-world blind items for May.

Apr. 30, 2010	MUST BAD PAINTING BE GOOD? by Charlie Finch The haphazard gesture beckons to the lazy collector.

Apr. 28, 2010	CAROLEE THE PAINTER by Charlie Finch Carolee Schneemann’s "Within and Beyond the Premises" at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.

Apr. 23, 2010	THE COWARDS OF THE BLOGOSPHERE by Charlie Finch Who’s where on the Marlene Dumas "blacklist" story.

Apr. 21, 2010	TILTON AT WINDMILLS by Charlie Finch Veteran dealer’s explosive testimony in the Marlene Dumas blacklist case.

Apr. 21, 2010	SPARE CHANGE by Charlie Finch Remembering Nancy Spero (1926-2009) and the work that has just begun.

Apr. 19, 2010	STILL RAINING, STILL DREAMING by Charlie Finch Special for spring, the real secret of art.

Apr. 16, 2010	NAKED CAME I by Charlie Finch Performers find Marina Abramovic’s work just a little too touching.

Apr. 13, 2010	WORK OF ART 1946 by Charlie Finch Orson Welles is your host, live from the St. Regis Hotel.

Apr. 9, 2010	THE SHOCK OF THE NEW by Charlie Finch The New Museum, the Mr. Potato Head of contemporary art museums.

Apr. 8, 2010	CLUB MOMA by Charlie Finch Previewing "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century" at the Museum of Modern Art.

Apr. 7, 2010	MARINA: THE MUSICAL by Charlie Finch Rothko is on Broadway, why not set Abramovic to music?

Apr. 5, 2009	HIGGLY PIGGLY by Charlie Finch Whitney Museum curator Larry Rinder’s roman à clef, Revenge of the Decorated Pigs.

Mar. 29, 2010	A VISIT FROM CHRISSIE by Charlie Finch Jet-set curating and the art of sadomasochism.

Mar. 26, 2010	HIGH COTTON by Charlie Finch Joe Zucker’s "Cotton Paintings" from 1976 make an impressive comeback.

Mar. 22, 2010	SENTRIES OF SECURITY by Charlie Finch Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon at Madison Square Park in Manhattan.

Mar. 19, 2010	MR. ED by Charlie Finch Ed Paschke becomes his own American icon.

Mar. 17, 2010	PERFORMANCE ART IS A BORE by Charlie Finch Time to shut down the genre.

Mar. 11, 2010	THE MOUNTAIN OF ART by Charlie Finch If you estheticize U.S. debt obligations and sell the resulting product on the art market. . .

Mar. 10, 2010	POUND FOR POUND by Charlie Finch Remembering Omar Shakespear Pound, putative son of poet Ezra Pound.

Mar. 8, 2010	MEMORIES OF RUTH by Charlie Finch Ruth Kligman, 1930-2010.

Mar. 5, 2010	WHO IS DAKIS JOANNOU? by Charlie Finch A look at the business dealings of the Greek supercollector.

Mar. 2, 2010	A BRUCELLANY by Charlie Finch A down-and-dirty guide to Brucennial value, literally.

Mar. 1, 2010	HEADLESS HIRST by Charlie Finch Damien Hirst declares an "End of an Era."

Feb. 25, 2010	LUMPY GRAVY by Charlie Finch William Kentridge and the second coming of Julius Knipfl.

Feb. 23, 2010	A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN by Charlie Finch A few good words for the 2010 Whitney Biennial.

Feb. 22, 2010	BRICKTOP by Charlie Finch Derrick Adams throws down a gauntlet of taboo.

Feb. 19, 2010	OBJECT LESSONS by Charlie Finch Out at Alexander and Bonin, Anna Kustera and David Zwirner galleries.

Feb. 17, 2010	JUICE AT THE BRUCE by Charlie Finch Get on board for the Bruce High Quality Foundation "Art Rescue Vehicle"

Feb. 12, 2010	BAIT AND SWITCH by Charlie Finch Tax the rich to revitalize the (art) economy.

Feb. 8, 2010	CAGEY by Charlie Finch Sterling Ruby’s "2Traps" and the cage esthetic.

Feb. 5, 2010	BLADE RUNNERS by Charlie Finch Kiki Seror and the intertia of male microscopia.

Feb. 3, 2010	PURPLE HAZE by Charlie Finch Irving Petlin and the deadly ambiguity of suffering.

Jan. 29, 2010	INTO THE RYE by Charlie Finch J.D. Salinger, 1919-2010

Jan. 28, 2010	LES IS MORE by Charlie Finch New paintings by Les Rogers, plus a note on Julian Schnabel.

Jan. 27, 2010	MASTERPIECE MAGIC by Charlie Finch Inka Essenhigh’s "The Old New Age" at 303 Gallery.

Jan. 20, 2010	A LOST WORLD, FOUND by Charlie Finch "The Lost World of Old Europe" at the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.

Jan. 19, 2010	JOY IN THE MORNING by Charlie Finch Art has become a golden scarab on the mountain of life.

Jan. 13, 2010	SHAMELESSLY PLUGGING MY MIDDLE AGED FRIENDS by Charlie Finch Bushwick’s new Storefront gallery, George Negroponte at Kouros, and news of Steve Van Nort and Deborah Kass.

Jan. 11, 2010	WHAT DEITCH MEANS FOR L.A. by Charlie Finch A Cecil B. DeMille for a beleaguered L.A. MOCA.

Jan. 8, 2010	THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP by Charlie Finch Patti Smith and the bric-a-brac of life.

Jan. 6, 2010	MIX AND MATCH by Charlie Finch A modest proposal regarding Urs Fischer, Gabriel Orozco and our leading art critics.

Jan. 5, 2010	ON TARGET by Charlie Finch Kenneth Noland, 1924-2010.

Jan. 4, 2010	THE END OF THE BEGINNING by Charlie Finch The sum of art in five minutes of Basquiat.

Charlie Finch Archives for 2009

Dec. 29, 2009	THE CARROT OF CARICATURE by Charlie Finch David Levine, 1926-2009.

Dec. 28, 2009	ROUND THE BEND INTO 2010 by Charlie Finch Waving the wand for the coming year.

Dec. 22, 2009	PEARLS OF GREAT PRICE by Charlie Finch Death is part of life.

Dec. 18, 2009	CHRIS MASS TIME by Charlie Finch Watching painter Chris Martin talk to students, via YouTube.

Dec. 16, 2009	ZAHM BAM! by Charlie Finch Olivier Zahm’s perve party from the city of light.

Dec. 11, 2009	THE THRIFT SHOP BIENNIAL by Charlie Finch Whistle while you work the recycling bins.

Dec. 10, 2009	THE COMMANDER by Charlie Finch Thomas Hoving, 1931-2009.

Dec. 9, 2009	GABRIEL MEETS THE GLOBE by Charlie Finch "Gabriel Orozco" at the Museum of Modern Art.

Dec. 8, 2009	HAS ART JUMPED THE SHARK? by Charlie Finch Signs point to yes.

Dec. 7, 2009	GUSTON’S FINGER PUPPETS by Charlie Finch Philip Guston’s "Small Oils on Panel, 1969-1973" at McKee Gallery.

Dec. 3, 2009	ARTYRDOM by Charlie Finch Does the marginalization of fine art have something to do with the fakeness of its transgressions?

Nov. 30, 2009	NOUGHT FOR THE AUGHTS by Charlie Finch The gaudy and outrageous decade.

Nov. 23, 2009	ATMOSPHERE by Charlie Finch "Cold Water" at La Mama Galleria and Lucio Pozzi at Creon Gallery.

Nov. 17, 2009	SMALL BEER by Charlie Finch The conflicts of interest in l’Affaire Joannou are all too familiar.

Nov. 12, 2009	A SHORT HISTORY OF MASTURBATION by Charlie Finch Art’s primal secret, found in Sterling Ruby’s "The Masturbators."

Nov. 10, 2009	THE UNFORBIDDEN by Charlie Finch Richard Hell, Brigitte Engler and some other guy at Bowman/Bloom Gallery in the East Village.

Nov. 9, 2009	A WRINKLE IN TIME by Charlie Finch Silvia Sleigh’s portraits of art-world notables from the 1960s and ’70s.

Nov. 6, 2009	A WALK IN THE WOODS by Charlie Finch The refreshingly bucolic David Hockney.

Nov. 4, 2009	TUNA FISCH by Charlie Finch Andy Warhol’s Tunafish Disaster meets Urs Fischer at the New Museum.

Nov. 2, 2009	THE ARTFUL DIMAGGIO by Charlie Finch Eva Lake’s collage of Joe Dimaggio at Cinders Gallery provokes thoughts of the legendary baseballer.

Oct. 30, 2009	SHADOW MAN by Charlie Finch Harlem Renaissance photographer Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009.

Oct. 22, 2009	KIMONO MASTER by Charlie Finch Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design" at Japan Society Gallery

Oct. 20, 2009	THE FIERY FOREST by Charlie Finch An environment worth watching by Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen.

Oct. 15, 2009	A LACK ATTACK by Charlie Finch Paintings by the legendary polysexual sybarite Stephen Lack.

Oct. 13, 2009	WHAT THE OBAMAS SHOULD HAVE BORROWED by Charlie Finch A modest proposal, or two.

Oct. 13, 2009	TRANSPARENCY AT THE WHITNEY? by Charlie Finch The conflicted public interests in museum patronage.

Oct. 9, 2009	IS FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY ART? by Charlie Finch Irving Penn and the art of fashion.

Oct. 9, 2009	JOHNSON AND ART by Charlie Finch Notes on the tercentenary of the first great modernist, Samuel Johnson.

Oct. 8, 2009	JUNGER THAN THAT NOW by Charlie Finch C.G. Jung’s Red Book at the Rubin Museum of Art.

Oct. 6, 2009	WHAT IF NO ONE COLLECTED? by Charlie Finch Most art instantly disappears.

Oct. 2, 2009	PHOTO SHOP by Charlie Finch Jewels of MoMA’s new photo installation.

Sept. 29, 2009	THE BIG HURT by Charlie Finch Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker.

Sept. 25, 2009	STILL A FRAUD by Charlie Finch Deconstructing Dave Hickey.

Sept. 24, 2009	THE LONELY CROWD by Charlie Finch Shutterbug Christopher Dawson captures the other side of public events.

Sept. 22, 2009	SOCKCUCKER BLUES by Charlie Finch On Robert Frank’s Cocksucker Blues.

Sept. 21, 2009	THE SAN FRANCISCO SENSBILITY by Charlie Finch Sherry Wong makes San Francisco subcultures a family affair.

Sept. 18, 2009	THE TYRANNY OF THE SMALL by Charlie Finch Belgian painter Luc Tuymans talks about his traveling U.S. retrospective.

Sept. 15, 2009	DA DO RON RON by Charlie Finch An art-celebrity-packed tribute to Mary Boone Gallery director Ron Warren.

Sept. 14, 2009	WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG by Charlie Finch Remembering the 1960s with Dennis Hopper’s photographs.

Sept. 14, 2009	A SHOT OF WRY by Charlie Finch Photographer Tim Davis and "The New Antiquity."

Sept. 11, 2009	MOANIN' WITH MONET by Charlie Finch The Museum of Modern Art re-presents "Monet’s Water Lilies."

Sept. 9, 2009	COEFFICIENT by Charlie Finch Wayne Coe’s sidewalk drawings.

Sept. 8, 2009	OCTOBER by Charlie Finch Uli Edel's film The Baader Meinhof Complex.

Sept. 3, 2009	MOTHER-IN-LAW by Charlie Finch Anne Truitt at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Aug. 31, 2009	I LOVE SUSAN SILAS by Charlie Finch The New York photographer has a show coming up.

Aug. 25, 2009	IN SEARCH OF THE VISUAL by Charlie Finch An art hiatus in the multiplex.

Aug. 21, 2009	THE OTHER JACK by Charlie Finch Jack Tworkov at UBS Art Gallery.

Aug. 20, 2009	STING LIKE A BUTTERFLY, FLOAT LIKE A BEE by Charlie Finch A summer mediation on boxing, Muhammad Ali and the fate of the American rebel.

Aug. 17, 2009	NOUVEL RICHE by Charlie Finch A city planning commission vignette, starring MoMA’s proposed skyscraper.

Aug. 13, 2009	THE AVANT-GARDE by Charlie Finch Will there ever be an avant-garde again?

Aug. 6, 2009	THE REMAINS OF THE DAY by Charlie Finch Another art decade draws to a close.

Aug. 3, 2009	REMEMBER THE ALAMO by Charlie Finch Tony Rosenthal, 1914-2009.

July 30, 2009	Design Time by Charlie Finch "Ron Arad: No Discipline" at the Museum of Modern Art.

July 27, 2009	WE THREE by Charlie Finch Merce Cunningham, 1919-2009.

July 23, 2009	THREE DEALERS by Charlie Finch The High Line is the death knell for the Chelsea galley scene.

July 17, 2009	THE HARVEST OF ART by Charlie Finch A captured piece of time.

July 14, 2009	TOYS WILL BE TOYS by Charlie Finch At Japan Society, a show of Japanese toy autos from the post-war years.

July 13, 2009	DASH IT by Charlie Finch Dash Snow, 1981-2009

July 9, 2009	BLIND ON BLIND by Charlie Finch A parable for the art recession.

July 7, 2009	BOVACIOUS by Charlie Finch Carol Bove’s "Plants and Animals" at the Horticultural Society of New York.

June 29, 2009	MICHAEL AND JEFF by Charlie Finch Childhood as a signifier of dread in fairy tales by Michael Jackson and Jeff Koons.

June 24, 2009	BAD TO THE BONE by Charlie Finch If you like the funnies, you’ll love James Ensor.

June 22, 2009	WILL COLLECTORS STEP FORWARD? by Charlie Finch A challenge to art buyers.

June 18, 2009	ANOTHER NEW YORK MEMORY by Charlie Finch Frank Herbert Mason, 1921-2009.

June 16, 2009	PEEING WITH BRENDAN by Charlie Finch BARR, aka Brendan Fowler, performs at the New Museum.

June 11, 2009	HAROLD AND MAUDE by Charlie Finch Megumi Sasaki’s new documentary, Herb & Dorothy.

June 9, 2009	NAUMAN AND JOHNS by Charlie Finch Contrasting visions of despair from two celebrated contemporary artists.

June 5, 2009	THE DEATH OF A POET by Charlie Finch Robert Colescott, 1925-2009.

June 5, 2009	CHRIST IN THE CAR by Charlie Finch The esthetics of the auto in contemporary America.

June 4, 2009	INTO THE NIGHT by Charlie Finch Yale’s disingenuous lawsuit over van Gogh’s Night Cafe.

June 1, 2009	WANDERING AND PONDERING by Charlie Finch A slow summer art season begins.

May 29, 2009	THE LADY HOSMER by Charlie Finch Patricia Cronin’s homage to the 19th-century American sculptor Harriet Hosmer.

May 27, 2009	PICKING AND CHOOSING AT MOMA by Charlie Finch Warhol and LeWitt win out over Mira Schendel and Leon Ferrari at MoMA.

May 20, 2009	TWO COATS OF PAIN by Charlie Finch A modest proposal to put downtown galleries in empty Madison Avenue storefronts.

May 16, 2009	DEATH OF AN ARTIST by Charlie Finch John Michelini, RIP.

May 15, 2009	BEING CHRISTINA by Charlie Finch Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World at the Museum of Modern Art.

May 12, 2009	BEARDED RAINBOWS by Charlie Finch Pablo Picasso is a bowlful of fun.

May 8, 2009	GOT MIK? by Charlie Finch The Museum of Modern Art presents films by Dutch artist Aernout Mik.

May 4, 2009	VEGAS IN THE BRONX by Charlie Finch A new springtime for the Yankees.

Apr. 29, 2009	OUT OF IRAQ by Charlie Finch Artist Ahmed Alsoudani and the chaos of Iraq.

Apr. 27, 2009	WHEN THE PAINT DISAPPEARS by Charlie Finch New paintings by Alex Katz and Che Lovelace.

Apr. 23, 2009	DRAWN AND QUARTERED by Charlie Finch "Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection" at the Museum of Modern Art.

Apr. 20, 2009	COIN OPERATOR by Charlie Finch William Metcalf and Yale University’s coin collection.

Apr. 17, 2009	MARILYN AND BIRD by Charlie Finch The true arts of America.

Apr. 13, 2009	JESUS RESPONDS by Charlie Finch "Younger than Jesus" at the New Museum.

Apr. 7, 2009	THE COMING ART BOOM by Charlie Finch Market conditions are perfect for a resurgence in classic contemporary.

Apr. 6, 2009	JOHN JR. by Charlie Finch An image of lost youth in John Waters’ "Rear Projection."

Mar. 31, 2009	LEVITTATION by Charlie Finch Helen Levitt, 1913-2009.

Mar. 30, 2009	ANOTHER COUNTRY by Charlie Finch New exhibitions by Michalene Thomas and William Villalongo.

Mar. 25, 2009	EVACUATION OF THE WEST by Charlie Finch A downbeat look at the American West in MoMA’s "Into the Sunset."

Mar. 23, 2009	THE QUIET WORLD OF GABI HAMM by Charlie Finch Painted portraits and the power of personality.

Mar. 19, 2009	GRACELAND by Charlie Finch Photographer Tanyth Berkeley and her model Grace.

Mar. 17, 2009	INCOMPLETE by Charlie Finch Dana Schutz and the perils of history.

Mar. 16, 2009	CHA ON THIS! by Charlie Finch Xavier Cha and the beauty factory.

Mar. 9, 2009	HOORAY FOR HAROLD! by Charlie Finch New tales from Abraham Lincoln expert (and Met communications chief) Harold Holzer.

Mar. 5, 2009	BREAST MILK by Charlie Finch The price of objectification in Kathleen Gilje’s portraits of women.

Mar. 3, 2009	NO SMILES AT MOMA by Charlie Finch The museum stamps out a bit of free creativity.

Feb. 26, 2009	EPISTLE TO KIPPY by Charlie Finch "Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective" at the Museum of Modern Art.

Feb. 24, 2009	BROKEN GHOSTS by Charlie Finch New work by Lisa Yuskavage and Susan Rothenberg.

Feb. 18, 2009	COPING WITH COPLANS by Charlie Finch Revisiting the photographs of the late John Coplans.

Feb. 13, 2009	GROUNDHOG’S DIARY by Charlie Finch Piero Manzoni, Imi Knoebel, Jeremy Earhart, Andrea Zittel, Kepler and Lipon, Janet Biggs, more.

Feb. 12, 2009	LADY COURAGE by Charlie Finch Leila Hadley Luce, 1925-2009.

Feb. 11, 2009	THE SHOW OF THE SEASON by Charlie Finch Tadashi Kawamata’s "Tree Huts" capture the recessionary zeitgeist.

Feb. 9, 2009	INSIDE THE SHEPARD FAIREY CASE by Charlie Finch Portraits of Barack Obama at Danzinger Projects.

Feb. 5, 2009	WEAPONS OF MAD DESTRUCTION by Charlie Finch Native American warrior art and artifacts at the new John Molloy Gallery in Manhattan.

Feb. 3, 2009	PASCAL’S PUZZLES by Charlie Finch Matt Johnson’s "Super System" inaugurates Taxter & Spengemann’s new gallery space.

Jan. 30, 2009	SCREWTUBE by Charlie Finch Old corporate profits in the new democratic media.

Jan. 29, 2009	HAVING A RAVE UP! by Charlie Finch Artist Mickalene Thomas curates "The Brand New Heavies" at Collette Blanchard Gallery on the Lower East Side.

Jan. 26, 2009	A BAD LIGHT SHOW by Charlie Finch Robert Irwin’s "Red Drawing White Drawing Black Painting"

Jan. 22, 2009	COLLECTVISM WORKS! by Charlie Finch Wake up from the bad-dream art world of star dealer hegemony!

Jan. 14, 2009	THE SPROUSE HOUSE by Charlie Finch Thumbs down on the Stephen Sprouse revival.

Jan. 12, 2009	SURVIVAL STRATEGIES by Charlie Finch A proposal for a new, more sane and generous art market.

Jan. 6, 2009	ARTISTS AS OPTIMISTS by Charlie Finch Never mind the bollocks, artists stay busy.

Jan. 2, 2009	2009 CRYSTAL BALL by Charlie Finch Predictions for the coming year.

Charlie Finch Archives for 2008

Dec. 29, 2008	WOULD DUKE APPROVE? by Charlie Finch On Robert Graham (1938-2008), and Duke Ellington.

Dec. 22, 2008	GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charlie Finch Momentary encounters with the famous and renowned.

Dec. 17, 2008	REMEMBERING WILLOUGHBY by Charlie Finch Willoughby Sharp, 1936-2008.

Dec. 17, 2008	LUST OR LIFE by Charlie Finch Kiki Seror’s motifs of carnality.

Dec. 11, 2008	DUBIOUS DUMAS by Charlie Finch Marlene Dumas’ painting is lugubrious and lazy.

Dec. 8, 2008	GIVE PEACE A CHANCE by Charlie Finch Lisa Ruyter’s "Atoms for Peace" in Vienna.

Dec. 3, 2008	ROBERTA ON YOUTUBE by Charlie Finch The celebrated New York Times art critic tells all.

Dec. 1, 2008	THE PERSONAL IS NOT POLITICAL by Charlie Finch Kate Winslet makes the Holocaust palatable in Stephen.

Nov. 24, 2008	THE SOFT PARADE by Charlie Finch Common sense for hard times.

Nov. 20, 2008	FEET DON’T FAIL ME NOW by Charlie Finch Pipilotti Rist’s "Pour Your Body Out" at MoMA.

Nov. 18, 2008	A SILVER LINING by Charlie Finch All-female sales could cure a down market.

Nov. 12, 2008	LIGHTER THAN EROS by Charlie Finch "Eros" at Richard L. Feigen & Co.

Nov. 10, 2008	I AM A BERLINER! by Charlie Finch Brigid Berlin, the last of the superstars.

Nov. 5, 2008	WHITE ON WHITE by Charlie Finch Barack Obama rebukes William Eggleston.

Oct. 29, 2008	MIRÓ, MIRÓ ON THE WALL by Charlie Finch A hyperactive hodgepodge at MoMA reveals an anachronistic painter’s painter.

Oct. 23, 2008	BLACK LIGHT DISTRICT by Charlie Finch Sensuous and reflective craft in "Japanese Postwar Photography"

Oct. 15, 2008	ANIMALISM by Charlie Finch Alexander Calder is for kids.

Oct. 8, 2008	MAKE LOVE NOT WAR by Charlie Finch Gargoylish paintings by Damon Johnson, moody photos by Sebastian Mlynarski.

Oct. 3, 2008	RENAISSANCE GOOFBALL by Charlie Finch On the road with Elliott Arkin and "Mr. Artsee"

Sept. 26, 2008	RAZZLE WITHOUT DAZZLE by Charlie Finch New beaded masterpieces from Liza Lou.

Sept. 18, 2008	AN ALIEN VISION by Charlie Finch "Van Gogh and the Colors of Night" at the Museum of Modern Art.

Sept. 17, 2008	SOPHIE AND ALAIN by Charlie Finch French Pop artist Alain Jacquet dies in New York at age 69.

Sept. 12, 2008	COMFORT AND JOY by Charlie Finch New paintings by Damian Loeb and Isca Greenfield-Sanders.

Sept. 11, 2008	TSUNAMI TIME by Charlie Finch A retreat to curatorial sensibility in the museum world.

Sept. 8, 2008	MY DINNER WITH KISSINGER by Charlie Finch The still-vibrant psyche of 85-year-old Henry Kissinger.

Sept. 2, 2008	A FIRMAMENT OF STARSby Charlie Finch Gearing up for the new fall art season.

Aug. 25, 2008	THINGS FALL APART by Charlie Finch David Kramer’s new book-cum-artwork, Snake Oil.

Aug. 20, 2008	ANGELS ON THE GROUND by Charlie Finch The film Beautiful Losers chronicles Alleged Gallery and the 1990s “Street Art” movement.

Aug. 15, 2008	LOVE AND LOSS by Charlie Finch A review of Peter Schjeldahl’s new collection of art criticism, Let’s See.

Aug. 12, 2008	THE EMPERORS OF ART by Charlie Finch Hypermaterialism from Fifth Avenue to Dubai to Beijing.

Aug. 8, 2008	THE MURDER OF DAMIEN HIRST (as told to Charlie Finch) by Charlie Finch The perfect work of art.

July 30, 2008	A KISS FOR KIRCHNER by Charlie Finch "Kirchner and the Berlin Street" at the Museum of Modern Art.

July 25, 2008	BERKSHIRE IDLER by Charlie Finch The state of the arts at Belvoir Terrace Camp in Lenox, Mass.

July 23, 2008	A SIGG JOKE by Charlie Finch More thoughts on the case against the Olympics in China.

July 11, 2008	PAIN IS THE NAME OF THE GAME by Charlie Finch Painter Chuck Connelly in HBO’s new The Art of Failure.

July 9, 2008	WATER FALLACIES by Charlie Finch Public art and the public good.

July 8, 2008	UBIQUITOUS ART by Charlie Finch The idea of art is everywhere these days.

July 2, 2008	AN IDLER’S DIARY by Charlie Finch Julian Laverdiere, Doug Blau, Sherry Wong, Catherine Murphy, more.

June 27, 2008	OIL PAINTING by Charlie Finch Abstract Expressionism in the sheikdom.

June 25, 2008	CHAOS THEORY by Charlie Finch Buckminster Fuller, Paul McCarthy, and Salvador Dali’s "Painting and Film"

June 23, 2008	MUGGY UGLY by Charlie Finch A new Dennis Oppenheim art project in Union Square Park definitely does not improve the summer weather.

June 13, 2008	AN IDLER’S DIARY by Charlie Finch Wandering around SoHo and Chelsea at the beginning of summer.

June 10, 2008	LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN by Charlie Finch Chris Burden’s What My Dad Gave Me (2008) at Rockefeller Center.

June 5, 2008	BLANK DRAWINGS by Charlie Finch Bob Dylan’s sad doodles.

May 28, 2008	GOODBYE JOHN by Charlie Finch John Weber, 1932-2008.

May 23, 2008	LIGHT INDUSTRY by Charlie Finch Whimsy and dignity in photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher.

May 20, 2008	THE EYES HAVE IT by Charlie Finch Operatic lust in new paintings by Rosa Loy.

May 14, 2008	RAUSCHENBERG/WARHOL by Charlie Finch RIP Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008.

May 12, 2008	MISSION ABORTED by Charlie Finch The nuances of Yale’s Aliza Shvarts controversy.

May 7, 2008	BACK AND FORTH by Charlie Finch John Baldessari and Matt Mullican collaborate on "Pong" at Tracy Williams, Ltd.

May 5, 2008	PITCH PERFECT by Charlie Finch Kentucky’s art-and-culture magazine makes provinciality a glam asset.

Apr. 29, 2008	SCHNABEL AND HIS DOUBLES by Charlie Finch The magic formula behind the success of Julian Schnabel’s films.

Apr. 24, 2008	CRASH TEST by Charlie Finch Living dangerously with Anthony James.

Apr. 21, 2008	RUNNING, JUMPING, STANDING STILL by Charlie Finch Nobility and vigor in Elizabeth Peyton’s new works.

Apr. 18, 2008	FEAR STRIKES OUT by Charlie Finch Boycott the Olympics, and boycott contemporary Chinese art.

Apr. 17, 2008	FAKE IT 'TIL YOU MAKE IT by Charlie Finch Olafur Eliasson and the illusion of taste.

Apr. 8, 2008	THE THREAT OF LOVE by Charlie Finch Walter Robinson puts the error back in eros.

Apr. 4, 2008	WHITE MEN CAN’T PAINT! by Charlie Finch Morgan Neville’s new film, The Cool School, on the early Los Angeles art scene.

Mar. 31, 2008	HANGING AT THE HORTS’ by Charlie Finch Talk of Marlene Dumas, Richard Tuttle and Jimmy Page at Susan and Michael Hort’s private view during Armory weekend.

Mar. 26, 2008	A BROWN WORLD by Charlie Finch Painter Deborah Brown captures natural New York.

Mar. 21, 2008	CHEERS! by Charlie Finch A few words occasioned by Eduardo Sarabia’s Salon Aleman at the Park Avenue Armory.

Mar. 20, 2008	THE RETURN OF MAX ESTENGER by Charlie Finch New works by the artist from Queens.

Mar. 19, 2008	BETWITCHED by Charlie Finch New psychedelic allegories from Lane Twitchell.

Mar. 18, 2008	NOT SO WEI OUT by Charlie Finch Ai Weiwei’s Descending Light at Mary Boone Gallery.

Mar. 17, 2008	STARWALKERS by Charlie Finch Naked wonder from Richard Dupont at Lever House.

Mar. 14, 2008	MY DINNER WITH SIMON by Charlie Finch Veteran curator Simon Watson and the contemporary art banquet.

Mar. 11, 2008	DOOBY DOOBY DUBAI by Charlie Finch A modest proposal for art in the Middle East.

Mar. 4, 2008	BIENNIAL FOR ONE by Charlie Finch Go to Facebook for your own Whitbash 2008.

Feb. 28, 2008	INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY by Charlie Finch Thomas Krens, father of the global art plutocracy.

Feb. 27, 2008	GRIDLOCK by Charlie Finch "Color Chart" at the Museum of Modern Art.

Feb. 26, 2008	CHILDHOOD’S END by Charlie Finch Anna Craycroft, orphans and hope, and Obama as Manchild.

Feb. 22, 2008	THE LAST PICTURE SHOW by Charlie Finch Painter Chris Martin provides Chelsea with its final triumph.

Feb. 22, 2008	DR. STRANGE by Charlie Finch Baird Jones, 1954-2008.

Feb. 20, 2008	GET SMART by Charlie Finch "Design and the Elastic Mind" at MoMA.

Feb. 19, 2008	LOVE FOR SALE by Charlie Finch Peeking at the market for Miroslav Tichy.

Feb. 14, 2008	BROAD MINDED by Charlie Finch Swaping curatorial souls for the favors of the wealthy.

Feb. 11, 2008	THE WAY IT WAS by Charlie Finch The modest beginnings of legendary dealer Richard Bellamy.

Feb. 7, 2008	FATHERS AND SONS by Charlie Finch At the Museum of Biblical Art, "The Art of Forgiveness: Images of the Prodigal Son."

Feb. 6, 2008	LET THEM EAT WATER by Charlie Finch Olafur Eliasson’s "Waterfalls" is just for the good of New Yorkers.

Feb. 4, 2008	A COSMIC JOKE by Charlie Finch Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty was designed to be passive.

Jan. 28, 2008	CRITICAL MASS by Charlie Finch The keys to the art-critical kingdom.

Jan. 22, 2008	LATE BLOOMER by Charlie Finch Nobuhiro Ishihara’s symbolic creatures.

Jan. 18, 2008	CUT AND PASTE by Charlie Finch "Fit to Print" at Gagosian Gallery in New York.

Jan. 17, 2008	REPETITIVE STRESS by Charlie Finch Zhang Peili provides a chilling look at the world’s oldest civiliation.

Jan. 14, 2008	PENNMANSHIP by Charlie Finch Steely esthetic asceticism from Irving Penn.

Jan. 9, 2008	NAVAL GAZING by Charlie Finch Julian Schnabel’s new "Navigation Drawings."

Jan. 7, 2008	WHAT MAKES A MASTERPIECE by Charlie Finch A tale of the art market, 2008.

Jan. 4, 2008	OUT ON A LIMB FOR 2008 by Charlie Finch Scoping out the new year.

Charlie Finch Archives for 2007

Dec. 29, 2007	THE ASHES OF CHARISMA by Charlie Finch Contemporary artists and their pretensions.

Dec. 21, 2007	A CHRISTMAS EVE MEMORY by Charlie Finch New York City in the 1950s.

Dec. 19, 2007	TROLLING AT THE TROLL by Charlie Finch A new museum opens on the Lower East Side.

Dec. 14, 2007	ART AND THE PRESIDENCY by Charlie Finch Art takes a leave from the 2008 campaign.

Dec. 12, 2007	CRAP ON CRAP by Charlie Finch Lucian Freud’s inferior art.

Dec. 7, 2007	CLASSICS AND COMMERCIALS by Charlie Finch Selling art and selling out.

Dec. 3, 2007	WEEKDAY UPDATE by Charlie Finch A single masterpiece on view in New York’s Chelsea art district.

Nov. 30, 2007	EVE OF DESTRUCTION by Charlie Finch Employing entropy in the world of art.

Nov. 28, 2007	WATTS UP by Charlie Finch Sober symbolism in new paintings by Ouattara Watts.

Nov. 26, 2007	SPECTACULAR SHOW by Charlie Finch Symbols of transformation from Indian artist Bharti Kher.

Nov. 21, 2007	ESTRANGED IN A STRANGE LAND by Charlie Finch Hu Xiangdong packages China for consumption.

Nov. 20, 2007	THE VIRTUES OF TRANSPARENCY by Charlie Finch Time to smash open the doors of auctionland.

Nov. 12, 2007	DUPED! by Charlie Finch New homonculi from cybersculptor Richard Dupont.

Nov. 8, 2007	PECULIAR INSTITUTIONS by Charlie Finch Remembering galleries of times past.

Nov. 2, 2007	BLACK BOX by Charlie Finch Douglas Gordon’s new burnt-Warhol-on-mirror works.

Nov. 1, 2007	A LOST OPPORTUNITY by Charlie Finch Martin Puryear at the Museum of Modern Art.

Oct. 26, 2007	A NOT-SO-VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY by Charlie Finch The art blogs and their nonexistent readers.

Oct. 25, 2007	A SHOEBOX SHOW by Charlie Finch Park Avenue Bank hosts a show of works by 20th-century women artists.

Oct. 23, 2007	I AM STONED (ARE YOU STONED?) by Charlie Finch The secret Conceptual Art techniques of Lawrence Weiner.

Oct. 18, 2007	CHINA DOLLARS by Charlie Finch What’s behind the boom in Chinese contemporary?

Oct. 16, 2007	POPULAR PAINTINGS by Charlie Finch "XXL: Size Matters" at the Hudson Valley Center.

Oct. 12, 2007	ART ABOUT LIFE by Charlie Finch Lisa Yuskavage versus death.

Oct. 10, 2007	ART INFLAMES by Charlie Finch Vandalizing Andres Serrano in Sweden.

Oct. 5, 2007	VOLUNTEER SLAVERY by Charlie Finch Kara Walker and the injection of sex into horror.

Sept. 28, 2007	PRINCE CHARMING by Charlie Finch Richard Prince, market Leviathan.

Sept. 27, 2007	GOODBYE GLENN by Charlie Finch Hello Halbreich -- staff changes at the Museum of Modern Art.

Sept. 26, 2007	OLD SCHOOL by Charlie Finch André Emmerich, 1924-2007

Sept. 25, 2007	LOOKING by Charlie Finch When the eye is not invited in.

Sept. 21, 2007	FRANKINSCENSE by Charlie Finch Natalie Frank’s new paintings are both disturbing and entrancing.

Sept. 19, 2007	THE TALENT by Charlie Finch Hollywood stars and art stars, both dim.

Sept. 12, 2007	MIXED MESSAGES by Charlie Finch Marian Goodman Gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary.

Sept. 10, 2007	ANOTHER OPENING, ANOTHER SHOW by Charlie Finch Deborah Kass at Kasmin -- and Bottino -- plus the Collector Fair.

Sept. 7, 2007	DARKNESS VISIBLE by Charlie Finch On Lisa Ruyter: One Million Postcards.

Sept. 5, 2007	The return of midcareer by Charlie Finch A glance at the contemporary gallery offerings in New York this fall.

Aug. 23, 2007	ART OPPORTUNITIES by Charlie Finch A change in market values means a change in art values.

Aug. 17, 2007	HOW HE PAINTS HIS MASTERPIECE by Charlie Finch Waiting for Bob Dylan’s painting exhibition.

Aug. 13, 2007	JUST BRUCE by Charlie Finch Bruce Wolmer, 1948-2007, RIP.

Aug. 6, 2007	LIQUID SKIES by Charlie Finch Will the hedge fund crisis sink the art market?

July 30, 2007	A BIZARRE COLLECTOR by Charlie Finch A visit to Kykuit, the estate of the now-forgotten Nelson Rockefeller.

July 23, 2007	THEREMY by Charlie Finch Remembering Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.

July 19, 2007	A WORLD WITHOUT WARHOLS by Charlie Finch With Andy, the "authenticity" issue is absurd.

July 12, 2007	ORWELL ON DALÍ by Charlie Finch Is artistic freedom morally neutral?

July 7, 2007	FORM THING by Charlie Finch The lesser offerings are the thing at Storm King Art Center.

June 27, 2007	STINGELESE by Charlie Finch Rudolf Stingel’s graffiti art at the Whitney Museum.

June 25, 2007	WHAT ART SAYS ABOUT MONEY by Charlie Finch The love call of currency.

June 18, 2007	SIMPLE THINGS by Charlie Finch Seeking small moments of mildly enlightened distinction.

June 13, 2007	DAMIEN HIRST JUMPS THE SHARK by Charlie Finch The YBA star flogs a $100-million diamond skull.

June 4, 2007	JERSEY TRANSIT by Charlie Finch If you ride Jersey Transit, you don’t need Richard Serra.

May 24, 2007	I’VE GOT THEM OL’ COSMIC FILLMORE EAST BLUES AGAIN by Charlie Finch On the occasion of "Summer of Love" at the Whitney Museum.

May 17, 2007	REMEMBERING JONATHAN by Charlie Finch A memorial for art scribe and Asia hand Jonathan Napack.

May 5, 2007	WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DAVID ROCKEFELLER? by Charlie Finch Mark Rothko’s White Center (1950) hits the auction block.

May 4, 2007	MURAKAMI AND THE MURPHYS by Charlie Finch Parallel manifestations of Sara and Gerald Murphy and Takashi Murakami.

Apr. 26, 2007	PRINCE FEIGEN by Charlie Finch The quattrocento meets Ab Ex in "Sublime Convergence" at Richard L. Feigen & Co.

Apr. 18, 2007	BITS AND PIECES by Charlie Finch Rummaging through old Manhattan with photographer Kevin Landers.

Apr. 9, 2007	PECULIAR PEARLS by Charlie Finch Dead calm in Philip Pearlstein’s paintings.

Apr. 4, 2007	WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU SEE by Charlie Finch "Blue Cage Sculptures" by Rebecca Smith.

Mar. 27, 2007	RADICAL ETHIOPIA by Charlie Finch The African Christ in Ethiopian art.

Mar. 22, 2007	SPECIAL OPS by Charlie Finch Reticent retinal art, and more, on Madison Avenue.

Mar. 15, 2007	SPRING OASIS by Charlie Finch The Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden.

Mar. 7, 2007	STUBBED by Charlie Finch George Stubbs is as much an ironist as an avatar of the sublime.

Mar. 5, 2007	CINDERELLA by Charlie Finch Loving Cindy Sherman as she swans into middle age.

Feb. 26, 2007	DISAPPEARING ACTS by Charlie Finch What’s new in Artland.

Feb. 21, 2007	LOVE IN THE RUINS by Charlie Finch Gordon Matta-Clark at the Whitney Museum.

Feb. 12, 2007	DILL VERSUS PRINCE by Charlie Finch Lesley Dill and Richard Prince at the Neuberger Museum.

Feb. 9, 2007	THE GILDED CAGE by Charlie Finch Imagining the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

Feb. 5, 2007	THE PROBLEM OF THE MUSE by Charlie Finch A figure one wants so to behold but never to be.

Jan. 26, 2007	A NEW MARKET THEORY OF ART by Charlie Finch Is everyone making money, or is the money making them?

Jan. 17, 2007	WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF NO CONTEXT by Charlie Finch Doug Aitken turns MoMA into an outdoor Cineplex.

Jan. 10, 2007	TWO THIEVES by Charlie Finch The bohemian and the ubercollector.

Jan. 2, 2007	THE WAY WE WERE by Charlie Finch Remembering art as a part of life.

Charlie Finch Archives for 2006

Dec. 14, 2006	THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO by Charlie Finch Photographer Alix Smith, plus contemporary art, at the new Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan.

Dec. 7, 2006	ROBERT ROSENBLUM, 1927-2006 by Charlie Finch The art world’s great populist.

Dec. 6, 2006	TANIGUCHI’S REVENGE by Charlie Finch The Museum of Modern Art unveils its new Education Building.

Nov. 28, 2006	PICKING AND CHOOSING AT DIA BEACON by Charlie Finch Minimalism lives in a converted factory in a Hudson River mill town.

Nov. 20, 2006	THE CARNIVAL STOPS FOR A GRAY DAY by Charlie Finch On Agnes Martin and Kiki Smith.

Nov. 14, 2006	SEDUCED AND ABANDONED by Charlie Finch Who says New York needs a museum of contemporary art?

Nov. 6, 2006	PAINTING THE TAPE by Charlie Finch Hedge funds and the art market.

Oct. 27, 2006	WHAT BECOMES A LEGEND LEAST by Charlie Finch Brice Marden at MoMA.

Oct. 19, 2006	MISSION CREEP by Charlie Finch The new catchword for museoexecs.

Oct. 12, 2006	ONE GOOD PRINT by Charlie Finch Prints and editions from Europe at MoMA.

Sept. 29, 2006	PICASSO THE CONSERVATIVE by Charlie Finch At the Whitney Museum, how Cubism retarded American Art.

Sept. 19, 2006	THE FAILURE OF DE MONTEBELLO by Charlie Finch Taking apart the Met chief’s latest pronouncements.

Sept. 11, 2006	POOLS OF WONDER by Charlie Finch Alchemy and a hint of claustrophobia in Isca Greenfield-Sanders visions of suburbia.

Aug. 29, 2006	CRITIC AGONISTES by Charlie Finch Skunks and art critics.

Aug. 7, 2006	A QUIRKY COLLECTOR by Charlie Finch Museum founder Roy Neuberger was one of a kind.

Aug. 1, 2006	FEET OF CLAY by Charlie Finch Since when does money create masterpieces?

July 14, 2006	BABES IN LOYLAND by Charlie Finch German painter Rosa Loy’s female mythology.

June 28, 2006	PICKING AND CHOOSING AT THE WHIT by Charlie Finch All the masterpieces at the Whitney’s "Full House."

June 19, 2006	The Great Picabia by Charlie Finch Francis Picabia is the star of "Dada" at MoMA.

June 8, 2006	WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DOUGLAS GORDON? by Charlie Finch There once was a man from the Highlands. . .

May 15, 2006	A BREAKTHROUGH SHOW by Charlie Finch Sherry Wong paints a 21st-century Big Chill.

May 5, 2006	OLD FRIENDS by Charlie Finch Notes on Jocelyn Hobbie, Lisa Ruyter and Kerri Scharlin.

Apr. 26, 2006	ARTE POVERA IN NEW ORLEANS by Charlie Finch Throw some support to the City That Care Forgot.

Apr. 4, 2006	WORLD OF WOMEN by Charlie Finch "Bearings: The Female Figure" at PS122 Gallery in Manhattan.

Mar. 27, 2006	WHITNEY BIENNIAL V. EVERGLADES by Charlie Finch Where rules must be observed to stay alive.

Mar. 10, 2006	STOP THE INSANITY! by Charlie Finch Contemporary art’s disconnect from the real world.

Mar. 6, 2006	THE RETURN OF ANTHONY JAMES by Charlie Finch New works go on view in Chelsea.

Feb. 9, 2006	THE SEDUCTION OF NATALIE FRANK by Charlie Finch Portrait of a fast rising star.

Feb. 1, 2006	TRUE LOVE COMES TO VEGAS by Charlie Finch Wedding bells ring for our scribe and his bride.

Charlie Finch Archives for 2005

Jan. 18, 2006	A VISIT WITH DEB AND PATTIE by Charlie Finch New work by New York artists Deborah Kass and Patricia Cronin.

Jan. 4, 2006	POSTMODERN SYSTEMATICS by Charlie Finch Touchstones in the pseudoreligion of contemporary art.

Dec. 20, 2005	SIDESHOW BOB by Charlie Finch Robert Rauschenberg "Combines" opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Dec. 14, 2005	SELECT, DON’T SETTLE by Charlie Finch Passing some time in New Haven.

Nov. 30, 2005	SOPHIE’S CHOICES by Charlie Finch New "Zebra Stripe Paintings" by Sophie Matisse.

Nov. 11, 2005	THE GROVES OF ACADEME by Charlie Finch A visit to the Columbia MFA open studios.

Nov. 4, 2005	TIRED OF ART? by Charlie Finch In search of surprises in a complacent contemporary art world.

Oct. 20, 2005	ELIZABETHTOWN by Charlie Finch Elizabeth Murray at the Museum of Modern Art.

Oct. 19, 2005	SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL by Charlie Finch Touring Chelsea on Saturday, looking to buy.

Oct. 11, 2005	TOYS IN THE ATTIC by Charlie Finch Art protected from the wider world.

Sept. 22, 2005	A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM by Charlie Finch Laurie Anderson’s supernal "The Waters Reglitterized."

Sept. 13, 2005	A Chat with Leo Steinberg by Charlie Finch The great art historian, still in the "Now"

Sept. 12, 2005	THE TEASE CONTINUES by Charlie Finch The last pictures of Diane Arbus.

Aug. 29, 2005	What’s Love Got To Do With It? by Charlie Finch Artist Lisa Kirk organizes the feminist/anti-feminist "Bonds of Love"

Aug. 8, 2005	Buffalo Soldier by Charlie Finch "Extreme Abstraction" at the Albright-Knox.

July 22, 2005	More Than a New Discovery by Charlie Finch Photographer Alix Smith and the subjects of identity.

July 8, 2005	The Hollow Museum by Charlie Finch Trophies of the rich at the Museum of Modern Art.

June 17, 2005	Signs of Life on West 23rd Street by Charlie Finch The latest developments on Chelsea's new gold coast.

May 18, 2005	INVISIBLE MAN by Charlie Finch Reading the secrets of Jasper Johns’ new "Catenary" series.

May 17, 2005	AGAINST INTERPRETATION by Charlie Finch New paintings by Malcolm Morley and Judy Ledgerwood.

April 27, 2005	THE DECLINE AND FALL OF PAINTING by Charlie Finch The bad stuff is everywhere.

April 20, 2005	DANGER IS HER GAME by Charlie Finch Laurel Nakadate takes liberties.

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